dmd 2.057 release

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Jan 3 11:46:51 PST 2012


"Alex Rønne Petersen" <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jdviuj$16e$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>> Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could 
>>> help
>>> getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster.
>>
>> We call them betas <g>.
>>
>> But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do.
>
> That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of ready-to-download 
> builds would be much better.

I don't remember if this feature has made it into a formal DVM release yet 
or not, but it's been in the main DVM master branch for awhile:

>git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git
>git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git
>git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git
>git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools.git  # for RDMD
>dvm compile
>./dmd/bin32/dmd  # or ./dmd/bin64/dmd
DMD32 D Compiler v2.0...
...etc...

Of course, that completely ignores the results of the auto-tester.

> As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing builds for download would 
> be ideal.
>
> - Alex 




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